July 27th, 2007
I was just chatting with Chetly on another post and it occurred to me that I haven’t been here to cbdc in some time.
Part of my problem is seasonal … I’m always busier during the summer than any other time of year. Part of it is that I have a ton of yard work that I do, but it’s primarily because of the work that I do, and the fact that my workload increases so much at the end of the school year. The workload stays heavy until the beginning of the next.
I didn’t realize it had been so long since I’d been here … it feels like a grave site. I’m going to work on getting myself organized a bit better, so I can pay attention to Shiawassee again. I’ve spent all my time over at BFM, caught up in state level issues. Learned a lot, but I don’t like being away from the county. I’m totally missing the budget process. 
So if I have any readers left at all here, I apologize for just disappearing like that.
Back to my title though, right now I’m in New York having a fine vacation. The trip over was interesting. (We drove) Canadian border officers (don’t know what they’re actually called) are very nice. Ours are nasty. We were in line to get into Canada for about 5 minutes. We looked over to the Canada -> America side, and they were backed up quite a ways. Then we got to the New York entry and we were in line for about 45 minutes. The officer working the booth was really rude when we finally got up there.
Hey, it’s not my fault the towers were attacked. I didn’t elect the idiot president who would rather read that pet goat book than read his daily briefings about Osama Bin Laden. And no, I didn’t bring anything in from Canada. Not the universal health care, not the good roads, not the gay rights, AND I’m neither a Muslim nor a trial lawyer. So let me into my country, you giant A-hole.
Sorry but the guy was a real jerk. (No, I don’t feel safer just because he was mean)
Probably won’t be any better trying to get back into Michigan either.
Well, anyway … Lots of interesting stuff to see around here. I just picked up a camera (apparently it’s possible to get a better picture if you’re not using a cell phone) and we’ll be off to get some pics later.
I got some cellphone pics over the fold, if you want to check them out … (not very good) …
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We’re home now (sweet!) … they opened up one lane shortly after this posted. I don’t know exactly what happened but it looked ugly. I didn’t go slow to look at the accident, but I did have the video camera running the whole time, so I’ll post some pictures later. Hope everyone there is ok. By the way, approximately 1-2 miles west of the accident are the signs “PRISON AREA DO NOT PICK UP HITCH-HIKERS” … just one little example of why people shouldn’t get out of their cars and walk around when they are stopped on the highway.
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